Hollywood totally exaggerated the ridge. Hacksaw ridge looks nothing like what they filmed. I have been there. The real film should have been about the Okinawan people. Okinawa was taken over by Japan in the 1800 and been treated like third class citizens to this day. They were used as human shields by the Japanese Imperial army. They killed them indiscriminately. Okinawan people have their own language. The Japanese told them if you speak Okinawan we will kill you. They saw it as subversion. 1/3 the local population of Okinawa was killed in the crossfire of the battle. that is 120,000 lives. You should read about Himyuri Nurse school. Comprised of teenagers treating injured civilians. Many were killed for refusing to kill or abandon the wounded.

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No Glory in War and its blurred truth
on 11/14/2016 at 10:44 AM

To learn the story of Desmond Doss without the war porn, watch "The Conscientious Objector" (2004) available on Amazon and other streaming sites. We saw this before "Hacksaw Ridge".
Sure Mel Gibson's film is good cinema, and the acting is stellar, but I don't need to see graphic violence to know that war is hell. Hear it from Mr. Doss and his platoon comrades before they died. (Especially if you are prone to PTSD.)

It's only the insane insatiable appetite for "any" entertainment in our current society that allows these tropes to survive. Let's hope the a more ubiquitous future of entertainment delivery will put crap like this in the dustbin of history.

I sat for a full minute staring at the last paragraph of this review, flabbergasted that you would consider a film which is literally just a plot hybrid of two previous films, throwing in shallow and horrifically bumbling new characters while completely destroying the personalities of existing ones, to be an example of how to revive a franchise properly.

I always read one rotten tomatoes reviews, of the many, based on how much I laugh at the reviewer quotes. Though simple, this is a bad movie, was pretty funny. I still love the Doug Liman one the best. The story was fresh, the action was crisp and it slapped James Bond around. We have Kingsman now. Bourne should be aborted.

Hey everybody...the new Star Trek is okay. It's a fun, silly chapter in the franchise that goes a little overboard, but remains coherent and exciting. As for this summer, I'm just scratching my head. I'm a big fan of the summer movie season, and I really count on this time to have fun on a weekly basis at the cinema. The big blockbusters have been a bust. It's getting ridiculous. On my way to see Suicide Squad now. Pray for me...Grimmy.

Modern day big budget films are really lacking something. You really have to go independent these days to find something decent. I agree with Grimmy, the latest installment of Star Wars was an exception to the norm. Although I haven't yet seen it, the new Star Trek film interests me...I think that film could be an exception also. The AZ/DC Family hopes so!

I just saw this movie on one of the XD screens at a local theater. I'm a devoted Jason Bourne fan, but I have to say this reviewer has accurately assessed this latest chapter in the series. It is long, tedious and boring with no contribution to the Jason Bourne franchise.

Don't buy the baloney. Affleck sucks, and his Batman should be committed to the insane asylum, Eisenberg IS the insane asylum, and not in a Heath Ledger way, so moronic is his Luthor character, and only Cavill as Superman is anywhere near normal, but even his character is dragged down by the portentous, ridiculous, movie. I didn't think that it was possible, but this film is even worse than JJ's Star Trek toilet bowls.

Henry Cavill was screwed repeatedly by Zack Snyder. You want a "dark" Superman, fine, but don't make him an angry, morose dullard who is incredibly STUPID. He looks like he wants to flip off the audience when saving Amy Adams. Would it hurt this douchebag jock retard to "smile" for once? Superman gets his powers from the SUN not a garbage can whilst playing a Joy Division boxset. The only good thing about this craotastic spectacular is that he gets murdered by a giant turd. Yep! Superman bites it because he's too fucking stupid to hand a kryptonite laced soear to Wonder Woman. 10 year old kids were facepalming simultaneously around the planet. I can take comic book clichés, but can we have a DC film without giant plot-holes every 3 minutes? This film was edited by the biggest Man Boy idiot-Zack Snyder. What was he snorting? Crystal meth off a urinal everyday at the studio? Guy compares himself to fucking Alan Moore in interviews. He should be ashamed of himself for inflicting his utterly lame-brained "vision' of two sawed in half storylines ... No payoff. No drama. No suspense. No buildup. Nada. Zilch. Superman is pummeled and banged by the biggest asshole director of modern times. Congratulations,Zack, your " philosophical" pretentious ,boring joke of a film. How hard is it to write a good series with these characters. Try building up to something instead of farting an explosion out your ass onto the audience for once. Here's an idea... Superman goes rogue/evil after a period of three films..slowly...the JlA try to take him down. Batman -the weakest member- is left to take him down. Suspense,drama,excitement AND emotional payoff. No, you'd rather pussy out and give us cookie cutter bullshit! You talk about being different than Marvel. Shut the fuck up and go all the way with your ideas instead of chickening out!

I know Adam West is still alive Triplem555. I used this thing that is all the rage with the teenagers nowadays, it's this fad that the kids are calling sarcasm. It's really fun to use when people don't take it so seriously. Have a super (get it, super?) weekend. DC

Watched BvS on the weekend and thought it was very entertaining. Iron Man 3 happened to be on TV the next day. I've seen it before and thought I'd watch it again. With BvS fresh in my mind, watching Iron Man 3 felt like a childish joke. And critics applauded that movie. Seriously. It looks amateurish. The dialogue is ridiculous. The acting is goofy. It felt like I was watching one of those campy 70s movies in comparison to BvS. And yet Iron Man 3 was from 2013. And scored high critical review. Smh.

@Bob...to be fair, I would also want someone else besides Snyder to take on the JL films. George Miller would be a good candidate since he was originally considered to direct a JL flick back in 2008, but unfortunately that movie was scrapped. Snyder is an artist when it comes to making visually striking movies but comes short when trying to put everything together as a director. Imagine how beautiful it would be to have Miller directing and Snyder bringing his visuals as co-director. At this point it's obvious Warner Bros. is going on ahead with the JL films and Snyder directing them and it seems nothing will stop him. All we could do is hope that he somehow manages to give what everyone wants.
Saying that, I think this movie isn't either horrible or great. Horrible is what they have done with Marvel's beloved properties such as the Fantastic 4, Punisher (pre-Daredevil series), Ghost Rider and to some extent Spider-Man and I'm not even counting Howard the Duck and those other shoddy movies from early 90's. On a lighter note, Warner's and Snyder have stated that the upcoming films such as JL will have lighter tones. Regardless of its tone, even Ayer's Suicide Squad seems like it'll be a "Marvely" movie with smiles and comedic banter.